APC chief cautions IPBO, others on secession protests

A chieftain and member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of Abia State All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Benjamin Apugo, has called for caution among those agitating for Biafra, saying Biafra died with the civil war.

Apugo told Igbo youths, especially those in the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and others to bother more about the lack of social amenities and bad roads in the Southeast and approach their governments to take the matter up with the Federal Government.

“The war ended long ago and we are all Nigerians. It is not reasonable for people to talk about Biafra and our people have to speak up so that our children don’t die. What they should be talking about is employment, roads, water, airports and other amenities that are lacking in the Southeast. If they agitate for that, they will not block roads. They should talk to the governments of their states, which will dialogue with the Federal Government.

“The people leading the agitation are small boys, whose mothers were not even born during the war. Will they fight more than Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Joe Effiong, and at the end Biafra did not exist?”

“Governors of the Southeast, if possible, should print pamphlets to enlighten youths that there is nothing like Biafra today. People should not use Biafra to defraud others.”

He added that the Federal Government should not, because of the agitation, see the Southeast, especially Umuahia, as unsupportive of the Buhari administration.

“All the while former President Goodluck Jonathan was in office, they should have demonstrated about Biafra, but they did not. The President will tackle the problems we are facing now, our past governors did not perform, and they did not create avenues for employment, or empowerment”, he said.